WORKSHOP 6 - EDUCATION & PRE-TRIP INFORMATION

RUNDOWN

• Education system in Cambodia

• Typical timetable at primary school

• Teachers @ Cambodia – TASK I

• Pre-trip Information – TASK II

EDUCATION SYSTEM

Source: National Institute of Statistics, Ministry of Planning, Aug 2009

EDUCATION SYSTEM

• Preschool is NOT compulsory – 874 State preschools operate 3 hrs per day, 5 days per week, 38 weeks per

year

– 364 Community preschools operate 2 hrs per day, 5 days per week, 24-36 weeks per year

• Primary education lasts for 6 years and is COMPULSORY – Pupil/teacher ratio is 49:1

– Repetition rate was 8.9%

– Overall dropout rate was 8.3%

(Hong Kong 14.1:1) (Hong Kong 3%) (Hong Kong n/a) Source: http://www.edb.gov.hk/

PRIMARY EDUCATION – WEEKLY TIMETABLE

PRIMARY EDUCATION – WEEKLY TIMETABLE

• New National Curriculum (Dec 2004) – 5 periods of teaching per day (each period is 40mins)

– 5 days per week

– 2-5 additional 40 mins periods per week of LLSP

• Local Life Skills Programme (LLSP) – Establish with the new national curriculum in 2004

– Topics like health Education, safety, nutrition, relaxation, illness protection, hygiene food, traffic safety, drowning awareness, landmine awareness, HIV & AIDS awareness, drug awareness, bird flu, environmental protection

TEACHERS

• Do you still REMEMBER your favourite school teacher?

• WHY do you still remember him/her?

• What IMPACT he/she has left in your life?

So...... in searching for what makes a good teacher (on google obviously)

TEACHERS

TEACHERS @ CAMBODIA

• In 2004/05 – Approx 4,395 preschool teachers

• 3,027 in state preschools

• 920 in community preschools

• 448 in private preschools

– Approx 45,000 primary school teachers

(Hong Kong 12,893) (Hong Kong 23,556) Source: http://www.edb.gov.hk/

TEACHERS TRAINNING @ CAMBODIA

• Community teachers have in-service training for 16 days provided by Department of Early Childhood Education in the provinces

• Preschool and lower secondary education teachers, Regional teacher training centres offer 2yrs programmes to upper secondary education graduates

• To qualify for upper secondary school teacher, 1yr postgraduate programme at the National Institute of Education for bachelors degree holders.

TEACHERS CONCERN @ CAMBODIA

• Highly academic nature of the teacher-training curriculum

• A large proportion of time is spent on academic upgrading as opposed to teaching methodology and in-school teaching practice

• Insufficient incentives for posting qualified teachers to work in remote areas and school in difficult circumstances

Which is why….

• Previous Homework – Each group comes up with 3 creative ideas to teach their education element

– You can utilise the design features that will appear on your site

OBJECTIVE OF CREATIVE TEACHING MANUAL

• Develop a full set of CREATIVE Teaching Manual covering the three age groups (pre-school / grade 1 /grade 2) by the Service trip* – Using simple material

– Use of pictures

– Easy to follow

* For the purpose of Pre-trip, focus on PreSchool level

TEACHER CONSULTATION @ PRE-TRIP

Education syllabus / their teaching methods / Challenges

Your creative way of teaching

Teachers’ comments

Local Teachers IDEA volunteers

TASK I (approx 45mins)

1. From your homework, each group to select one interactive way of teaching your education element – All target Pre-School level , 3-5 years old

– Using the template, prepare a simple teaching instruction with pictures

– Prepare one set of material for demonstration

– Prepare to give a 5-10 minutes presentation

2. Each group to come up with 5 questions they want to know about local education system / teaching methods / Challenges

PRE-TRIP INFORMATION

TASK II

1. Prepare for the consultation with the local community, teachers and children about your DESIGN and your STORY – Using your model/ sketch up / four block comic

2. A list of questions for your Pre-tripees to find out – Material available? Paint colours?

– What size? Cost?

3. A list of questions to discuss with Engineer tomorrow – Buildable? Cost?